Today Warner Home Video released a street date and details for THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy: Extended Edition on Blu-ray set, packing 15 discs (6 Blu-rays and 9 DVDs) into the three-movie box set due in stores on June 28th.

The immediate good news is that THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING Extended Edition will get a new, higher-quality transfer from its original 2K files which should be a vast improvement over the inferior, largely criticized transfer of the theatrical cut previously released on Blu-ray.

In an effort to maintain a higher quality presentation of each film, extended editions of FELLOWSHIP, THE TWO TOWERS and THE RETURN OF THE KING will each be split across two Blu-ray discs due to their long running time and concurrent bonus features like multiple commentary tracks. Each of Peter Jacksons films receives 1080p picture quality and lossless 6.1 DTS-HD Master Audio transfers.

The remaining nine DVD discs boasts about 26 hours of bonus materials including the great, extensive documentaries from the Special Edition DVD releases, plus the rare Costa Botes documentaries shot behind-the-scenes on each film which run over four-and-a-half hours in total. A disc-by-disc breakdown of the set is below.